PROLOGUE (ofc added afterwards
Please, @Bytro Labs staff, do NOT answer to this post, because I do not want to hear your spin-doctoring on how you 'improve' the game, because you are not.
Ultimately, you will be running on fly-by, phone playing 12yr olds, hopping to the next game in a week, which COW can never compete with, because no matter how much you dumbify the game, it will still be to complicated and slow.
Ofc, you own it and can do whatever you want, but save the bull crap sales story for the 12yr olds and ant-brained.
You should all go into politics, bc this downgrading has an end....when you have no real players left.
In politics, on the other hand, you can keep on failing and still get paid.
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@Geden
The Metal surplus was supposedly addressed (so you said), but when I jumped into the Antarctica map to check, I got Spain... and...
Guess what?
Starting with 1 Oil city, 2 Metal and 2 Food.
Main shortage thus still is Oil, Oil and ... Oil.
Wait ....did I mention Oil already?
Just in case: OIL !!
Then, to add insult to injury, the nearest AI-HQ (Wotan), naturally a main prize to rob, is producing 30k+ of ..... friggin' Metal!!
And 4 of 8 cities around it produce .... MORE friggin' ... Metal!!!
So, I am going MENTAL over this useless mega-supply of friggin' METAL!
I now have to go on a campaign to occupy neighbour country's cities, giving a tiny little bit of Oil only.
How is this balanced, when other countries are close to an AI-HQ which produces OIL????
1 AI-HQ which I spotted, like of Corps Vergeltung on this map, produces close to 30k Oil, which equals like ....what?.... 15 Oil cities of players??? And the loot when taking it...
So, I am like.... WTF???
What are you guys thinking?
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PS: thinking this over ... or overthinking this:
We all know Bytro is not trying to challenge players, so, that is not the reason for this idiotic situation on maps.
I mean, if that were the case, Bytro wouldn't be dumbifying the game continuously with downgrades, wouldn't it?
You bunch of 'smarty pants' ... you anticipated I would go check on your metal 'balancing act', right?
So, methinks Bytro designed this map solely to annoy me more.
Am I right?
I am, yes?
I mean, thát must be the reason...because if this is nót so ... thát would be truly awkward.
because, then you must be copying Monty Python's 'How to annoy people' perfectly ... and you are delibertely trying to frustrate players, which would be suicide.
So, if you are truly just trying to get rid of your players, why then not just close the company or stop publishing this game?
That would be less aggravating for everyone how loved this game and Bytro for it (...note the past tense).
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Edit on status hours later:
Cash = 55k ... and nothing to buy but ... friggin' Metal!!!
Manpower = 503 on stock; producing 637/hr
Food = 1300 on stock; producing 1200/hr
Metal = 10k (say: T E N T H O U S A N D) still on stock after selling tonnes; producing 1400/hr w/o investments
Oil = 0.9k on stock; producing 850/hr after heavy investing in it.
In short: the game is at at a complete standstill due to Oil shortage and mega Metal surplus.
Nothing to do, but risky attacks or sitting still.
Your 'balancing act' - even after 'close monitoring' of the litany of complaints upon your 'Resources ruined' downgrade - seems to be a failure....
Thát is 'emersion breaking'!
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PPS:
I don't believe a word of the KPI's showing good results.
For a fact, I am shoe size 44; Joe average, so to say.
You know I am spending on this game and I very recently spend on a nice bundle. Not because you 'improved' the game, but because my ego was hurt and I wanted to correct my mistakes, though ultimately decided to not even spent my acquisions in that game and was satisfied with 2nd place in good and fun game.
These recent downgrades, however, only make me (a Joe A.) doubt whether I should spent another penny next year in support of a game which is hopelessly failing in its purpose, which is: being fun to play.
And when 'simple me' thinks of it that way, 99% of your real players are thinking this too.
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